[L-I] Re: Militarising the Revolution

2001-03-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Macdonald Stainsby wrote: [large clip] is their any logic to descriptions of radically transformed relations without a military input- one we can and should abhor, but also resign to the inevitable? Macdonald, Your syntax gets a bit congested here and I'm not sure precisely what you are

Re: [L-I] Re: Socialism, Regionalism, Pan-Africanism (was Learning)

2001-01-23 Thread Carrol Cox
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Mark Jones wrote: Carrol, that's what we are here discussing. For a long time some of us have been discussing fundamental problems buried within the technostructure at the heart of the capitalist mode of production. Glad you're here to help. Mark At

Re: [L-I] Re: oTWET: To moderators from Russia -to Louis Proyect

2001-01-20 Thread Carrol Cox
Mark Jones wrote: Tony: what about the general question of 'free speech'?Should it be limited in a 'free society'? This is a very interesting question. What did Lenin and/or Marx have to say about it? Freedom of speech refers only to the use abuse of state power. it is irrelevant

Re: [L-I] Re: Lunatics Liberation Front

2001-01-13 Thread Carrol Cox
Tony Abdo wrote: Carrol, I don't recall even mentioning your name once in my post. In fact, I included only myself as having been a 'mental patient'. You seem rather functional (sane), though utterly lacking in humor at times. PLUS, Baby Bush is not a 'lunatic'. I just wanted to

Re: [L-I] Re: Lunatics Liberation Front

2001-01-13 Thread Carrol Cox
Louis Proyect wrote: Then why do you get into such fierce debates over topics which require that you familiarize yourself with lengthy texts? I won't follow this up in any detail, but I'll give a general answer, in two parts. 1. Preliminary: Since then I have read a number of those texts

Re: [L-I] Owen Jones on DHKC and 'Stalinism'

2000-12-20 Thread Carrol Cox
red-rebel wrote: Owen Jones on the struggle of the DHKC... Are those the one that have little acts of individual terror now and then in a few cities? Oh whatever happened to Bolshevism, I do miss it. Owen Jones' thoughts on "Stalinism" - and not a quote from Trotsky in sight...

[L-I] [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Nation Time: Harry Haywood]

2000-09-26 Thread Carrol Cox
Original Message Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Nation Time: Harry Haywood Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:20:43 -0400 From: Art McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freedomroad.org/issues/brc/haywood.html Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Re: [L-I] The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-25 Thread Carrol Cox
"A.Wosni" wrote: When you keep on rejecting the right of the Albanians to selfdetermination This position, always stated as a sort of given, is logically quite indefensible. Suppose the white inhabitants of Selma, Georgia declared themselves a separate nation (in order to reinstitute the

Re: [L-I] Re: The Yugoslav Election

2000-09-25 Thread Carrol Cox
Owen Jones wrote: Sorry, Carrol, but this comparison is such a laugh I have no idea why you went to all the trouble. The white inhabitants of Selma, Georgia, are not a nation. Who says so? It's a purely subjective judgment on your part, and your failure to take the example seriously